What Reddy and Pogge don't say: a) Even the people who run PPP say it is unreliable for poverty research (see International Comparison Programme reports and UN correspondence) and two implications which I seem to have identified of the flaw: b) Distortions in PPP as a measure of poverty make the results of poverty comparisons using PPP highly suspect. (Examples: "Assessing Aid" and "Growth, Globalisation and Poverty" from the WB. The second of these claims more poverty reduction in globalising countries). This can be deduced from the ICP documents - and common sense - without using Reddy and Pogge's estimates.